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Former first vice-president of Fondservicebank Petr Ladonshchikov, who was arrested together with the ex-owner of this credit institution Alexander Volovnikov, on charges of embezzling 1.38 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. As part of the transaction, he testified about how and to which companies exactly 6 billion rubles were withdrawn from the bank on behalf of its former owner. A Kommersant source close to the investigation notes that after studying the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the owners of the firms involved in the scam may be brought to criminal responsibility, and Mr. Volovnik is facing a more serious charge - of organizing a criminal community.
Unlike former owner and the president of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik, who denies his guilt, Mr. Ladonshchikov immediately admitted it, starting to actively cooperate with the investigation. Subsequently, Mr. Ladonshchikov formalized his cooperation with the investigation by signing a pre-trial agreement with the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin. Now, according to the law, his case should be separated into a separate proceeding, and he himself can be transferred from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest.
As a reminder, a criminal case on embezzlement of Roskosmos funds deposited with Fondservicebank was initiated in August 2015. According to the preliminary investigation, Mr. Volovnik organized the theft from the bank of at least 1.38 billion rubles, which were withdrawn, including abroad, through fly-by-night companies that received bad loans. At the end of April, Mr. Volovnik and the alleged accomplice of the embezzlement, Pyotr Ladonshchikov, were arrested by the decisions of the Tverskoy District Court, to which representatives of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs applied. Now a Kommersant source claims that thanks to the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the amount of the alleged embezzlement has grown to 6 billion rubles, and in addition, companies that received bad loans from the bank and employees of the bank itself involved in the scam have been identified. "The decision on which of them will become the new accused in the case, and who will retain the current status of witnesses, will be made depending on their testimony," a Kommersant source said.
It is worth noting that the preliminary investigation, which was first conducted against unidentified persons under Part 4 of Art. 159.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in the field of lending) and was investigated rather sluggishly, at the beginning of this year, after the intervention of the Prosecutor General's Office, it intensified sharply. The qualification of the crime was changed to Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement committed on an especially large scale with the use of official position), and at the end of April the first alleged participants in the embezzlement, Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, were in the pre-trial detention center. Now, as a Kommersant source close to the investigation suggests, after a comprehensive check of the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov and the probable arrests of other participants in the embezzlement, the ex-owner of Fondservicebank, Alexander Volovnik, may be charged with a more serious Part 1 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community).
Meanwhile, the defense of Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov appealed against their arrests in the Moscow City Court. Representatives of the first of them insisted that the crime incriminated to him was committed in the course of entrepreneurial activity, offering to transfer the banker from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. The lawyers of the second argued the need for house arrest by the fact that the Tverskoy District Court did not take into account the repentance of the accused and his assistance to the investigation. However, the appellate instance left the bankers in custody.
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Roscosmos money disappeared in the criminal community
As it became known to Kommersant, the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspected the former heads of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik and Pyotr Ladonshchikov of organizing a criminal community of ten people who kidnapped, laundered or cashed in 6.5 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos. Nevertheless, by the decision of the Moscow City Court, the ex-bankers who served a year in a pre-trial detention center were transferred under house arrest.
According to Kommersant's information, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspected former president of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik and ex-president of the financial structure Pyotr Ladonshchikov of organizing a criminal community (part 1 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Another 11 persons involved in the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be charged with participation in an organized criminal group.
The banker issued six billion
As it became known to Kommersant, the former first vice-president of Fondservicebank Pyotr Ladonshchikov, who was arrested together with the ex-owner of this credit institution Alexander Volovnik on charges of embezzling 1.38 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. As part of the transaction, he testified about how and to which companies exactly 6 billion rubles were withdrawn from the bank on behalf of its former owner. A Kommersant source close to the investigation notes that after studying the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the owners of the companies involved in the scam may be brought to criminal responsibility, and Mr. Volovnik faces a more serious charge - of organizing a criminal community.
Ministry of Internal Affairs collects money from "Roscosmos"
As it became known to Kommersant, the investigation was continued against the ex-owner of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik and the first vice president of the financial structure Pyotr Ladonshchikov, who organized the theft from the bank of more than 1.3 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos. Thanks to the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the Interior Ministry officers detained three businessmen who were involved in the disappearance of funds.
The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, said that the employees of the Main Directorate economic security and combating corruption (GUEBiPK), as well as other police units, carried out a set of operational-search measures in a criminal case on the withdrawal of more than 1 billion rubles from the space industry.
The court extended the arrest of the ex-head of Fondservicebank Volovnik until March 25
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has extended the term of detention of the former president of Fondservicebank, Alexander Volovnik, who is accused of embezzlement, until March 25, the RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.
“To extend the term of detention in respect of Volovnik for three months,” Judge Maria Sizintseva read out the ruling.
The court also extended the term of detention in relation to the former vice-president of the bank, Petr Ladonshchikov, who is accused in this criminal case.
The court leaves under arrest the former head of Fondservicebank Volovnik in the embezzlement case
MOSCOW, 1 Feb - RAPSI. The Moscow City Court recognized the decision to extend the arrest of the former president of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik, accused of embezzlement, as legal, the press service of the court told RAPSI.
Thus, Volovnik will remain in custody until March 25. The court also upheld the decision to extend the period of detention in relation to the former vice-president of the bank, Petr Ladonshchikov, a defendant in the same criminal case.
According to the investigation, Volovnik was involved in the embezzlement of about 50 billion rubles placed in the aforementioned bank by the state corporation Roscosmos. Investigators believe that Volovnik and Ladonshchikov gave companies deliberately bad loans, and the money was withdrawn abroad. The defendants do not admit their guilt in the accusation.
Despite the accusations of the former heads of Fondservicebank Volovnik and Ladonshchikov that they had kidnapped, laundered or cashed in 6.5 billion rubles, the ex-bankers were placed under house arrest.
According to Kommersant's information, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspected the former president Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik and ex-president of the financial structure Pyotr Ladonshchikov in organizing a criminal community (part 1 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Another 11 persons involved in the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be charged with participation in an organized criminal group.
As reported by the Ruspres agency, a year ago Peter Ladonshchikov, who was arrested together with the ex-owner of the credit institution Volovnik, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. As part of the transaction, he testified about how and to which companies from the bank, on behalf of its former owner, were withdrawn "Roscosmos" 6.5 billion rubles.
Gentlemen Volovnik and Ladonshchikov spent almost a year in custody on charges of particularly large embezzlement or embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code) and were supposed to be released. New suspicions made it possible to keep them in a pre-trial detention center until the trial was considered by the court on the merits for up to one and a half years. However, the Moscow City Court yesterday refused the investigation to extend the term of detention of the accused, ordering to transfer them to house arrest. According to the source, the main investigative actions with their participation may be completed as early as July, after which the defendants will begin to get acquainted with the materials of the investigation.
The two main persons involved in the investigation, Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, recall that arrested back in the spring of 2017... In November of the same year, three more were detained - businessmen who, according to the investigation, helped the former heads of Fondservicebank to withdraw money through the accounts of their firms. Large amounts of cash were seized in the course of searches at the offices of these merchants. Businessmen, like ex-bankers, were taken into custody. But the seven new defendants who appeared in March of this year, the investigators did not imprison their liberty, having taken from them recognizance not to leave the place and proper behavior. According to some reports, such a humane attitude towards the alleged participants in the embezzlement and organized crime groups is explained by their insignificant roles in the incriminated crime, as well as cooperation with the investigation.
A criminal case on embezzlement of Roskosmos funds placed in the Fondservicebank, which is the main one for the rocket and space industry, was initiated in August 2015. Then in financial structure About 47 billion rubles, which belonged to Roscosmos, have been "stuck", some of which have disappeared.
Initially, the investigation established that Mr. Volovnik organized the theft from the bank only 1.38 billion rubles, which were withdrawn, including abroad, through one-day companies that received bad loans. However, after the arrest of Mr. Volovnik and his deputy Ladonshchikov, the amount of the alleged embezzlement increased to 6 billion rubles, and later, after interrogations of businessmen connected with the bankers, the amount increased by another 600 million rubles. In addition, during the interrogations of the new defendants in the case, companies that received bad loans from the bank and employees of the bank itself who participated in the scam were identified. As a result of the processing of this information, new persons appeared - the owners of one-day firms, who were included in the criminal chain of cashing out or laundering money stolen from the bank.
It should be noted that the investigation of the Fondservicebank case was at first rather sluggish. Only after the intervention of the Prosecutor General's Office at the end of April 2017, the investigation intensified sharply. It was then that the alleged organizers of the thefts, and now the OPS, Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, ended up in the pre-trial detention center.
The lawyers of Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, commenting earlier on the accusations of the ex-bankers of embezzlement, argued that their clients were not guilty of anything. Supposedly they were engaged exclusively in entrepreneurial activity... The defenders refused to discuss suspicions of organizing an organized criminal community.
At the same time, it should be noted that the ex-managers of Fondservicebank will no longer be able to compensate for the damage incriminated to them. The fact is that at the end of last year, Arbitration court Moscow, Alexander Volovnik was declared bankrupt - he owed 7.8 billion rubles to VTB, about 170 million rubles -
Co-owner of the Asia-Pacific Bank (ATB) and one of the former owners of Azbuka Vkusa, Andrei Vdovin, may be declared bankrupt. On August 14, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), the bankruptcy manager of the collapsed Finprombank, filed an application to the court for recognizing him as financially insolvent. The businessman owes him $ 11 million on the loan. Vdovin himself denies the existence of a debt, writes Kommersant.
According to the newspaper, Vdovin was a major borrower of Finprombank (September 19, 2016). And, as the DIA assures, until now, despite the measures taken by the liquidator, the debts have not been paid off.
“According to the inventory of the property of Finprombank, at the time of the opening of bankruptcy proceedings, the debt of Andrey Vdimovich Vdovin was taken into account on its balance sheet. credit agreement with a principal debt of $ 11 million, the DIA press service told the newspaper. - Return Money was supposed to be carried out on September 30, 2016, but so far the obligations to the bank have not been fulfilled ”.
A long period of default on obligations, the lack of actions aimed at settling the debt are sufficient grounds for applying measures to the borrower enforcement, including as part of the bankruptcy procedure, are confident in the DIA. However, Vdovin, according to the statement of his representatives, considers the claims of the DIA to be unfounded.
“This claim is completely insolvent: at present, Vdovin has no financial relationship with Finprombank,” the official representative of Vdovin assured the publication. - All previously operating financial liabilities before Finprombank were terminated in September 2016, all supporting documents were repeatedly submitted to the bankruptcy commissioner. "
The DIA insists that during the bankruptcy proceedings in the bank, no action was taken on the part of Vdovin to repay or restructure the debt.
It will not be easy to seize Andrey Vdovin's property. According to the materials of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, he is in the process of divorce and division of property from his wife Sophia, a famous Russian golfer. According to a source familiar with the situation, the spouse will receive the overwhelming majority of the property. The claim for the division of property, judging by the court's data, was filed on behalf of the wife almost immediately after.
Nevertheless, the bankruptcy procedure makes it possible to establish reliable information about the debtor's property and prevent its alienation, lawyers emphasize. In addition, the bankruptcy procedure can significantly reduce the collection period and the bank's costs for litigation, the DIA concludes.
Vdovin until the end of 2016 was a co-owner of the Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain. He is also still one of the largest shareholders of ATB. In connection with the collapse of ATB's subsidiary M2M Private Bank in December last year, Vdovin and his partners Alexey Maslovsky and Peter Hambro, at the request of the Central Bank, are looking for a strategic investor for the bank.
The legal company Paradigma, representing the interests of Andrey Vdovin, announces the termination of Finprombank's claims against the banker. "With proper study primary documents The DIA, obviously, could establish that the claims of Finprombank against Andrei Vdovin had long since been terminated. No one took into account that currently Finprombank has no documented rights of claim against Andrey Vadimovich. Based on the foregoing, it follows that filing an application for declaring him bankrupt is, most likely, an instrument of pressure from the bank and the DIA in order to present Andrey Vdovin in the most negative light, maliciously evading the fulfillment of obligations, ”the Bank said in a statement. .ru comments of the law firm.
Vdovin's defense promises to present irrefutable evidence showing the absence of any legal basis for the bank's claims to the court hearing.